Hurricane Bill is churning in the Atlantic and threatening Bermuda and the East Coast. Hopefully it will weaken and not cause any damage. Most businesses prepare to protect themselves from the damage these storms can inflict. However, there are numerous accounts of businesses being ill prepared to continue operating after the storm has passed because of an oversight in their business continuity planning.
Email is a preferred communication method. However, email continuity is often overlooked as part of the complete business continuity planning process. Hurricane winds, flooding, fire, etc., can knock an email server out of commission.
Mailprotector’s services – spam filtering and hosted exchange – provide business continuity in the event of mail server outages. Our Scan and Forward service provides mail queuing for up to 7 days if your mail server goes offline for any reason. Once your mail server is back online then your queued messages will be delivered. What if your on-premise mail server will be off-line for longer than 7 days or you need immediate access to your email? We can provide our Advanced Scan and Store service that gives you access to your email via a secure webmail console.
The value of our mail queuing was underscored by one of our customers back in July of 2007. England had been experiencing some of the worst flooding on record, and the shutdown of electricity substations in their region was ordered as a safety precaution. This meant that they had to power down all of their UK-based servers. Mailprotector’s availability protector kicked right in and bailed them out:
“Thanks to Mailprotector’s automatic message spooling we were able to build a replica environment in our US datacenter and be back up and running this morning without any customers experiencing loss of inbound emails.”
Mailprotector’s services are ideal for business continuity and should be made a key component for your business continuity planning.
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